WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by rutthenut on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:24AM (#25670226)

Carriers now looking to RCS as the messenger alternative, but if they price it like MMS, they will kill it. To do it cheaper, they have to give a large chunk of the service to Google, which gives Google the data mining opportunities :(

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by mrweasel on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:02AM (#25670493)

MMS is free at this point, in many countries. The carriers in those countries will make more money by using RCS, because it will use cellular data (at least if I understand it correctly), which isn't free.

My point being that I don't think many carriers care about text messaging, or phone calls. They sell you a fixed cost plan for those. The only thing that can really affect your price is data usage. If Google wants to deal with the hassle of managing a messaging platform, great, that's money save on running a service that isn't making money anyway.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by distances on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:10AM (#25671894)

Is RCS using Google infrastructure? I thought it stands for Rich Communication Services, the SIP/IMS based telco system?

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